Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announce the selection of award-winning writer and director Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, New York Film Festival 2014 and Corpo Celeste,New York Film Festival 2011) as their 2016 Filmmaker in Residence, the fourth annual initiative and partnership between the two organizations.
Alice Rohrwacher was born in Florence, Italy, in 1981. She graduated with a degree in Classic Literature from Torino University, and wrote for theatre and worked as a musician before approaching filmmaking, initially as a documentary editor. Her first feature Corpo Celeste premiered in Cannes Film Festival’s Director’s Fortnight in 2011, and was then selected for Sundance, New York, London, Rio,and Tokyo film festivals before being released in the US, UK, and France. Alice Rohrwacher’s second feature The Wonders won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival along with the Best.
During her residency in New York, Alice Rohrwacher will continue to write her third feature film, MyBitter Land, about the adventures of a man living on the margins of his society who can seemingly travel through time.
The Filmmaker in Residence program was launched in 2013 by Jaeger-LeCoultre and the Film Society of Lincoln Center as an annual initiative designed to support filmmakers at an early stage in thecreative process against the backdrop of New York City and the New York Film Festival (NYFF).
